Wants List

Wants Lists for Traditional Drama Studies.

When making a collection like this, there are three basic stages. Firstly, you have to learn that a piece exists and get enough details to identify it. Then you have to locate a source, and then try to get a copy. Most of the initial information comes from items already obtained – bibliographies, footnotes or brief mentions in the text. Frustratingly some of these are not always accurate or complete. As time goes on the lists inevitably accumulate items which cannot easily be found or for which the information is incomplete.

Some years ago I produced the ‘Mother of All Wants Lists’, running to many pages, which I sent to those friends and collaborators whom I thought might be able to help me. Thanks to their generosity the list is now reduced to the point where it hardly justified its grandiose title. In 2003, I decided to re-issue the list, and Peter Millington kindly offered to put it on the Website. Since then, some new wants have been added to the list, but a slightly larger number have been removed.

If anyone can supply copies of any items on the list, I shall be most grateful.
Also, it will be seen that many references lack essential details that are necessary to order them from the British Library or other sources. This applies particularly to journals and newspapers. Any information which will complete these refs would be a great help. Contact Me

ARMSTRONG, Edward A. The Wren Hunt and the Folk Play in Ireland. In The Folklore of Birds: An Enquiry into the Origins and Distribution of Some Magico-Religious Traditions. London: Collins, 1958. pp. 157-161.

Anon. a volume of essays by the English Association. Clarendon Press. dated Dec 1911 or 1912. One of them deals with “A Yorkshire Christmas play of very great antiquity”

NOLAN, Maura. 2005. John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (No. 58). 2- Lydgate’s mummings. 3- Lydgate’s disguisings. [It can apparently be downloaded from http://www.ebook3000.com/John-Lydgate-and-the-Making-of-Public-Culture_62681.html but I can’t get it to work]

REDMOND, John. The Alexandra Sequence (Book of poems due out in 2016) [see L.84-C]